Maybe I express myself in the wrong way xD All free file system are good for
any use, the real "issue" is a performance one. As an example :
- People with Netbooks or SSD's mostly choose EXT2 (because it isn't a
journalised file system and because of that there is less writing in the
disk, but no recovery also because of this).
- People with a lot of files (mostly small size) will choose the XFS, because
it handles them more quickly. Trisquel selects the XFS for the home partition
(mostly) in order to increase speed since rares will be the big files in the
Home partition (remember about all the documents, musics, configurations
etc..)
- Ext4 will be preferred for the System itself.
Apart of that you will have the Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, Btrfs etc.. to choose
on xD And all with a principal purpose. Many Gnu/Linux "advanced" people will
(as an example) create an "opt","home","var","tmp" etc... partition with
different sizes and different file-systems because of the different needs.
And, if you watch some benchmarks you will notice that nowadays there is only
a little difference between EXT4 and XFS in most cases (with big and small
sized files).
It is only my opinion nothing more xD
For my case, when I switched for Trisquel Gnu/Linux (and Parabola Gnu/Linux)
I decided to create 3 partitions :
1 - GPT for Grub (4 MB)
2 - Swap Partition (6144 MB)
3 - Ext4 Partition "/" (Rest of the Space)
Mostly because I wanted to use GPT and because I am lazy and don't want to
create various partitions xD (even knowing that a separate /home/ partion
would be a wonderful idea :D). But When I install Trisquel Gnu/Linux I always
choose the EXT4 mostly because I am more familiar with the tools nothing more
nothing else. But once again that is only me xD (Even if I agree that XFS is
better for a Home Partition tho).
etc...
